FOREIGN SERVICE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
United States Department of State
An Equal Opportunity Employer
How to Apply

Announcement No: IMS-2010-01
Opening Date: October 30, 2009
Closing Date: November 30, 2009

Position Title:


FOREIGN SERVICE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

Grade and Starting Salary Range:


FP-05: $42,314 - $62,140

Additional Benefits: Tax-Free Housing overseas; Tax-Free Educational Allowance for eligible dependents, etc

Location:

Initial training and orientation will be held at the Department of State in Washington, DC, normally followed by two directed two-year assignments overseas. During their career, Information Management Specialists will serve both overseas and domestically — moving at two to four-year intervals.

For more information, contact HR/REE, 202-261-8857 or email IMSVACANCYINFO@STATE.GOV

All potential applicants are strongly urged to read this entire Vacancy Information to ensure that they meet all of the requirements for this position before applying.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

The U.S. Department of State is the lead foreign affairs agency formulating and implementing the President’s foreign policy and representing United States' interests throughout the world. The Department carries out this mission at over 250 Embassies and Consulates around the world, offices in the metropolitan Washington, DC area and other locations in the United States.

Foreign Service Information Management Specialists (IMS) are responsible for information resource management programs and information technology worldwide. The work is diverse and challenging. IMS are responsible for application support, data and knowledge management, end-user support, managing and administering a worldwide telecommunications network, maintaining the telephone and wireless programs at overseas embassies and consulates, managing the Diplomatic Pouch and Mail operations and performing other duties such as supporting visits of high-level officials, including the President.

The ability to adapt to changing physical environments, work with differing levels of technology and keep abreast of the latest developments and innovations in the IT field are characteristic of Department of State Foreign Service Information Management Specialists.

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Click here (http://careers.state.gov/specialist/opportunities/infomanage.html) for more information, and to start the online application process. Please note that the deadline to submit completed applications is November 30, 2009.

Applicants must be U. S. citizens between the ages of 21 and 59, and able to qualify for a top secret security clearance.

We appreciate your interest in a career with the U.S. Department of State.

Job at Symantec

We have an immediate job opening for the position of a researcher in the area of Data Mining and Machine Learning:

http://www.symantec.com/about/careers/search.jsp?server=careers&Page=HRS
_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=581621
or
http://bit.ly/581621ResearchEng

Part-Time Job for MS Student

Presentation by Cree, Inc.
November 3, 2009 at 5:30 pm, 239B Hanes Hall


Assistant to CIO, Coop/Part-time

SUMMARY:

The person in this position will help CIO in tracking all the projects in our project tracking system and provide a weekly report for whether all the projects are updated with latest staus updates. In addition, the person will also act as a SharePoint system Administrator and help develop / manage several departmental portals & team spaces. This is a part time position for up to 20 hrs/week.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Weekly project tracking in project tracking system by closely working with project managers as necessary

* SharePoint portal administration and roll out of departmental portal

* Coordination of activities for evaluating various IT solutions

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Student currently enrolled in Master of Science program with Computer Science or Information Technology major.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Any prior experience with SharePoint or any IT project management system would be a plus.



Resumes can be sent to Sean Brody at Sean_Brody@cree.com

Job Fair, Nov. 12 1:00-4:30 pm Friday Center

Some of the companies are recruiting for Comp Sci grads with advanced degrees. See 09phdfair.pdf for a list.

Rowland Junior Fellows

We received a notice announcing that applications for Rowland Junior Fellows at Harvard are open. The deadline is November 30, 2009. I don't know how applicable this is to Comp Sci. They describe the program as follows.

The Rowland Junior Fellows are young experimentalists who have the opportunity to perform independent research under ideal conditions: a five year term, full salary, funding for start-up, operation, and a postdoc, help from technicians, and, best of all, full access to the Institute's shops and services. These Fellows are unusual people, with both good ideas and good hands. They are selected for their scientific achievement, their creativity, their resourcefulness as experimentalists and their ability to work independently.

See more detailed description at http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/rjf/images/RJF_2010.pdf

Job at academia.edu

Academia.edu is looking to hire a software engineer

About Academia.edu

Academia.edu helps academics answer the question ‘who’s researching what?’. It applies to any research area: you can type in ‘thermophilic organisms’, or one of 12,420 other research interests, and find out who is working in that area worldwide, as well as what they are working on – the latest papers, conferences, blog posts, status updates etc.

Our vision is for any researcher to be able to find out with one click the latest research that is going on in their area. We are firm believers that a research platform as powerful as this will exist in 5 years’ time, and we want to be the ones to build it. The goal is to impact people’s research lives as much as Facebook has impacted people’s social lives.

Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price. Richard did a Ph.D in philosophy at Oxford, and won the All Souls Prize fellowship there, awarded to two people a year. Richard previously founded www.peopleradar.com, which was the largest application on the Facebook API 1.0 for 8 months, and www.liveout.co.uk, a student rental site in Oxford. The other two members of the team are Ben Lund, CTO, and Jarques Pretorius, Lead Designer. More details about the team are on http://academia.edu/jobs.

Academia.edu launched 12 months ago, and is now one of the largest online communities of researchers in the world; we now have 63,900 profiles, and are growing by about 5,000 profiles a month. We have about 280,000 unique monthly visitors.

We are looking for an exceptional software engineer to join our team. Academia.edu has a very engineer-driven culture. We describe below how we think about our culture, and also the qualities of the person we want to join us.

Professional qualities – you are:

* A very talented engineer: you are able to innovate at the cutting edge of web development to overcome the complex challenges that can arise.

* Product and user experience focused: you are obsessed with creating a great product, and a great user experience. You feel anguish and pain when your site is slow, or when your user interface or feature is bad, and you feel pleasure when the site is fast and intuitive.

* A problem solver: you derive huge intellectual satisfaction from solving problems. You are always focused on finding the best and quickest solution to the problem you are working on.

* Technically ambitious: you are the kind of person who enjoys pushing the boundaries of the technologies you work with. For example, when thinking about the best UI for a feature, you would have no fear in considering creating a new JavaScript framework, if that is what is required to make it work right.

* A finisher: you care about finishing products and deploying code. You understand that exceptional engineering, combined with exceptional creativity, are what makes a startup succeed.

* Versatile: you are comfortable tweaking a CSS style or optimizing a SQL query all in the same morning

* Able to prioritize features: you can look at a ton of possible features on a whiteboard, be able to add your own ideas to the mix, and then intelligently choose which one has the highest priority

* Thoughtful about productivity: you think about what working environments and structures make you optimally productive. You try to ensure that the right environment and structures are in place for you.

* Dedicated: you are willing to get up at 4am to restart the servers, and then build something the next day so the servers don’t go down again

* Personally invested in what you work on: you care personally about the impact of your work on people around the world

For the full job requirements, please visit the job description at http://academia.edu/jobs/software_engineer

The job is based in San Francisco. On offer is a market salary and stock options. We want to hire someone exceptional, and will be generous with stock options to make this happen. In addition, you will also get health insurance, any ergonomic chair of your choosing, a laptop with two huge monitors, and a smartphone with monthly bills paid.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard@academia.edu.

Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellowship

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has established the Lawrence Fellowship, a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship program. The purpose of the fellowship is to pursue cutting-edge science and stimulate cross-fertilization of ideas.

Lawrence Fellowship Flyer Application deadline is November 1, 2009

Fellowships are awarded to candidates with exceptional talent, scientific track records, and potential for significant achievements. Typically two to four fellowships are awarded each year.

This fellowship has a three year term. After this period, the fellows may consider any career options, including staying at the Laboratory.

The fellows may participate in experimental and/or theoretical work at LLNL. They will have access to LLNL's extensive computing facilities, specialized laboratory facilities and field equipment. Additional details are provided in the links below. The fellows will most likely conduct their research in a collaborative, multidisciplinary manner with others in a team environment. A senior staff scientist will serve as a mentor to each of the fellows. The fellows' primary residence will be in the mentor's organization.

See https://fellowship.llnl.gov for more information.